I regularly stand with my hands under non-running faucets expecting them to automatically turn on like it does at work. Sometimes for an awkwardly long period of time.
@mehnyblooms It’s nice to know I’m not the only one around who have picked up such habits. I still love real books, always will but my tablets allow me to read in bed without disturbing my husband as much with the lights.
I tried using my mouse scroll wheel once while reading a multi-page printed PDF document. Holding stack of papers with left hand and reading, tried to advance to the next page via scroll wheel…
@blaineg yes. LCD screens that are vivid and have button shaped icons but your supposed to use physical buttons on the side… Shouldn’t all screens used as input devices be touch screens by now?
@medz My very first e-ink Kindle, way back when, was of course not a touch screen device. But every single person I showed it to tried touching or swiping. The consistency was amazing.
Work phone is another one that looks like it should be a touch screen.
Nope, you have to use the D-Pad and “enter” button to highlight then select the on screen button.
@blaineg I was another of those who thoughtlessly tried – many times – to use touch. That’s one reason why I jumped at the chance to buy an Oasis, even as exorbitantly priced it was and is.
If you know someone else who wants one, they put them on sale around Mother’s Day. Possibly also other times, but have not noticed.
They also have them out of the warehouse at a decent discount once in a while. I got lucky - ordered a wifi one out of the warehouse. Must have been a return, because it was flawless and never attached to an account (so said CS).
Took me a week to notice it also had 3g cell connectivity.
The Kindle Voyage also has a touch screen. Doesn’t the Paperwhite? I thought it did.
@Mehrocco_Mole I am not sure some of these younglings I am teaching have any idea what a library is. No, google search results are not synonymous with library database search results.
@RedOak My neighbor has a touchscreen all in one desktop computer. She curses the touchscreen because every time she uses her finger to find her place on a page, the screen moves.
People use the term “pinch and zoom”, but pinching obviously will only zoom-out. If one actually wants to zoom-in closer, what is that gesture called? De-pinch?
I’ve not only found myself pinching a magazine image to enlarge it, but I’ve also found myself scrolling up a static photo on my monitor. And a while back there was a viral image of a kid about 18 mos old repeatedly trying to pinch a magazine picture. I didn’t feel so dumb after that.
@RedOak Whenever I come across something like this, I chide myself for using a mobile browser in the first place. “Shame, shame,” I say, “You know better than to browse with a thing without plugins and developer tools, where you can’t control the pages you view.”
@RedOak I was challenging the assertion that the web in general “works fine” – just being snarky about advertisements, page load times, redirects, unnecessary JavaScript, etc.
If it’s not arson, it’s better than they deserve. I’d say you’re being very tolerant
Often times when I’m looking at a screenshot that someone has posted on Twitter or whatever, I’ll forget that I’m looking at an image of a screenshot and become frustrated when I can’t interact with that app.
More muscle memory than stupidity, I guess, but I constantly hit escape and start typing in colon commands in programs that are decidedly not vim. I’ve accidentally pushed bits of HTML out with randomly placed ':wq’s in them.
@brhfl I’m more frustrated that people don’t know how to crop screenshots. Like when they post an image of a facebook post on facebook as a new facebook post with extra facebook crap included in the image. First, Don’t. Second, you could just share the post instead of capturing a screenshot. Finally, if you going to steal an image, at least crop out so I don’t see facebook comments and like buttons and other crap that is just part of the static image.
Last night I had company over for steaks and movies. We wanted to get info on one of the actors, so I picked up the tv remote, held it close so it could hear me over the tv and conversation and said, “okay Google, what was the last movie starring Michael York?” The phone answered me from the next room and we all realized I was talking to the tv remote.
@InnocuousFarmer I use both a mac and a windows machine every day. The difference between using CTRL-C for copy and Command-C get me nearly every time. Very frustrating. At least if I’m in VMWare on the Mac, I can use either method but not if it’s a real Windows machine.
@cengland0 The Ctrl-C one doesn’t get me too often. Alt-Left in some browsers is back, which has given me an ohshit moment several times before when I was working on an unsubmitted form.
Hey, I just remembered, I’ve got a new one - reaching down to toggle the catch on my ratcheting belt - only to realize I’m not wearing one of the ratcheting belts!
I blame YOU, @Kidsandliz! Or is this the wrong thread?
@narfcake hmmm I am going to take one of your unblames from the blame thread and insert it HERE to neutralize @aetris’s blame in this thread. All is now in balance in the world.
Because many of the idiotic things I do are noticeable in the doing, or have consequences visible and obvious to others, it would take more than my personal silence to remove the impression of idiocy.
I’ve tried tilting a photo to see something out of the field of view. We’re all idiots at some point.
@Thumperchick
Did it work?
@RiotDemon
I’m ginning to do a steal from @Pavlov here (all apologies, @Pavlov!)
Welcome to the club, fucker.
I regularly stand with my hands under non-running faucets expecting them to automatically turn on like it does at work. Sometimes for an awkwardly long period of time.
I tried to turn the page in a book I was reading by swiping, doesn’t work on a real book.
@mehbee it kinda does
Try it with the cover open.
@ACraigL Oh my gosh, this is killing me…I’ll have to try this tactic next time.
@mehbee I have occasionally tapped a word in a printed book looking for the definition of a word I don’t know. Where’s my dictionary?
@mehnyblooms It’s nice to know I’m not the only one around who have picked up such habits. I still love real books, always will but my tablets allow me to read in bed without disturbing my husband as much with the lights.
@mehbee I know what you mean, and if you fall asleep (isn’t that the point?) it turns itself off. You don’t harm the book by rolling over on it too.
Technology was invented to drive us insane.
I tried using my mouse scroll wheel once while reading a multi-page printed PDF document. Holding stack of papers with left hand and reading, tried to advance to the next page via scroll wheel…
@medz So close, and yet, so far?
How about trying screen gestures on a non-touch screen?
Nothing to see here, move along.
@blaineg yes. LCD screens that are vivid and have button shaped icons but your supposed to use physical buttons on the side… Shouldn’t all screens used as input devices be touch screens by now?
@medz My very first e-ink Kindle, way back when, was of course not a touch screen device. But every single person I showed it to tried touching or swiping. The consistency was amazing.
Work phone is another one that looks like it should be a touch screen.
Nope, you have to use the D-Pad and “enter” button to highlight then select the on screen button.
@blaineg I was another of those who thoughtlessly tried – many times – to use touch. That’s one reason why I jumped at the chance to buy an Oasis, even as exorbitantly priced it was and is.
@magic_cave
If you know someone else who wants one, they put them on sale around Mother’s Day. Possibly also other times, but have not noticed.
They also have them out of the warehouse at a decent discount once in a while. I got lucky - ordered a wifi one out of the warehouse. Must have been a return, because it was flawless and never attached to an account (so said CS).
Took me a week to notice it also had 3g cell connectivity.
The Kindle Voyage also has a touch screen. Doesn’t the Paperwhite? I thought it did.
@blaineg My grandson (just barely 4) tried swiping and touching on my computer. Works on his leap pad. LOL
@magic_cave I’ve had the Voyage for a while, and I like having the options of touchscreen or buttons.
The free 3G coverage on my 2nd gen Kindle was immensely useful when I was stranded in Heathrow airport with no functional cell phone.
@f00l Nice bonus on the free 3G!
On the rare occasion I use a pencil I sometimes reflexively try to hit control z to erase fuckups.
@nogoodwithnames Back in the Palm Pilot days there were many times that I wrote a paper note in Graffiti gestures.
@blaineg one wonders whether these younglings have any clue what a “Palm Pilot” is?
Perhaps some kind of game?
@RedOak
One wonders whether these younglings have any clue what a pencil is?
@Mehrocco_Mole I am not sure some of these younglings I am teaching have any idea what a library is. No, google search results are not synonymous with library database search results.
Sometimes when I reading a document at work I wish I could use ctrl F with my eyes to find what I’m looking for.
@heartny scan it or photo it into Evernote or other apps and you can search it!
I keep trying to scroll my desktop monitor with my finger. sometimes try to use the pen on the desktop monitor.
@cranky1950 I’ve tried touching my desktop screen to scroll or select… it’s not a touchscreen.
@cranky1950 … and conversely, my laptop has a touch screen and I don’t think I’ve ever touched it!
@RedOak My neighbor has a touchscreen all in one desktop computer. She curses the touchscreen because every time she uses her finger to find her place on a page, the screen moves.
@blaineg I think you can disable touch in the settings can’t you?
I used to try to swipecard-unlock my car after a shift at my old job, which was swipe-in swipe-out on all the doors… facepalm
@2palms your meh username… Would that be plural facepalms?
People use the term “pinch and zoom”, but pinching obviously will only zoom-out. If one actually wants to zoom-in closer, what is that gesture called? De-pinch?
@DrWorm
@medz Spreadem. Unpinch how {great}. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
@DrWorm pinch then zoom?
I constantly try to do things with my mouse to things that aren’t on my monitor…
I’ve not only found myself pinching a magazine image to enlarge it, but I’ve also found myself scrolling up a static photo on my monitor. And a while back there was a viral image of a kid about 18 mos old repeatedly trying to pinch a magazine picture. I didn’t feel so dumb after that.
@magic_cave This one?
welcome to the club
@carl669
Fuck.
@f00l Anyone know what the fuck count is anymore?
@Mehrocco_Mole 4940 as of a couple weeks ago.
@carl669
Fucking ought to be fucking higher.
Don’t you hate it when the fuckers at a website lock a photo from pinch zooming? Especially when you’re on a phone.
@RedOak just take a screen shot then zoom on that image file.
@medz nope. Helps not since you don’t capture the original file resolution. Even if that worked, they’re still fuckers for making you do that.
@RedOak long press and open image in new tab
@medz thanks, but even if/when that works, they’re still clueless fuckers for making us do it.
@RedOak using Chrome mobile, put view-source: in front of the URL. For example:
view-source:https://meh.com
That’ll show you the html code and you may be able to copy/paste the URL of the image into a new tab.
Easy.
@medz I’ve needed to view source on mobile several times. Never thought to just stick it in front of the URL. Thanks.
@djslack haha.
You must enjoy seeing me repeatedly call them fuckers!
(In spite of your wealth of work arounds, those web devs remain fuckers.)
@RedOak While I don’t disagree with you, Chrome (Android, at least) has a setting under “Accessibility” called “Force Enable Zoom”.
@RedOak Whenever I come across something like this, I chide myself for using a mobile browser in the first place. “Shame, shame,” I say, “You know better than to browse with a thing without plugins and developer tools, where you can’t control the pages you view.”
Some day I will learn.
@blaineg thanks, but a non-solution. Most sites work fine or allow zooming. Web Dev fuckers.
@InnocuousFarmer thanks but a non-solution. Most sites work fine or allow zooming. Web Dev fuckers.
@RedOak I mean, I’d hardly call that “working”, but I admire your incredible tolerance and psychic durability.
@InnocuousFarmer
How is that not “working”?
Calling the zoom lock site web devs “fuckers” is tolerant?
@RedOak I was challenging the assertion that the web in general “works fine” – just being snarky about advertisements, page load times, redirects, unnecessary JavaScript, etc.
If it’s not arson, it’s better than they deserve. I’d say you’re being very tolerant
@RedOak Light a candle, curse the darkness. Whatever floats your boat.
@RedOak
They are.
@blaineg
How about both?
@blaineg Really? Oh, thank heavens. Or thank you, @blaineg!
@blaineg
now we’re getting warmer.
Often times when I’m looking at a screenshot that someone has posted on Twitter or whatever, I’ll forget that I’m looking at an image of a screenshot and become frustrated when I can’t interact with that app.
More muscle memory than stupidity, I guess, but I constantly hit escape and start typing in colon commands in programs that are decidedly not vim. I’ve accidentally pushed bits of HTML out with randomly placed ':wq’s in them.
@brhfl I’m more frustrated that people don’t know how to crop screenshots. Like when they post an image of a facebook post on facebook as a new facebook post with extra facebook crap included in the image. First, Don’t. Second, you could just share the post instead of capturing a screenshot. Finally, if you going to steal an image, at least crop out so I don’t see facebook comments and like buttons and other crap that is just part of the static image.
@brhfl “vi has two modes: insert and Beep.”
@brhfl For fun, I’ve been seeing if I can train myself to press ZZ sometimes instead of :wq.
@medz Not to mention their invariably nearly dead battery state…
@guyfromhawthorn yes and like every notification icon you can think of. Notifications sorta lose importance if they’re perpetually there.
Last night I had company over for steaks and movies. We wanted to get info on one of the actors, so I picked up the tv remote, held it close so it could hear me over the tv and conversation and said, “okay Google, what was the last movie starring Michael York?” The phone answered me from the next room and we all realized I was talking to the tv remote.
Sometimes when switching between a Mac and a Linux or Windows machine, I will try to use Alt instead of Ctrl to move the cursor left or right a word.
@InnocuousFarmer I use both a mac and a windows machine every day. The difference between using CTRL-C for copy and Command-C get me nearly every time. Very frustrating. At least if I’m in VMWare on the Mac, I can use either method but not if it’s a real Windows machine.
@cengland0 The Ctrl-C one doesn’t get me too often. Alt-Left in some browsers is back, which has given me an ohshit moment several times before when I was working on an unsubmitted form.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/2-florida-men-accused-stealing-113610619.html
@gumtreertmug different kind of idiot, but yeah…
@gumtreertmug We have a lot of them down here. “Yahoo” is an appropriate venue.
@gumtreertmug Gosh, that’s in my neighborhood.
@gumtreertmug
If you
Then you might just be a Redneck!
one day while problem solving, I tried to swipe the elevator button instead of the swiper.
@cranky1950
Did you become crankier, or were you already at max level?
@mflassy no cranky is for dealing with stupid. Troubleshooting is fascinating.
@cranky1950
So you’re mostly cranky?
@f00l lately
Hey, I just remembered, I’ve got a new one - reaching down to toggle the catch on my ratcheting belt - only to realize I’m not wearing one of the ratcheting belts!
I blame YOU, @Kidsandliz! Or is this the wrong thread?
@aetris There’s never a wrong thread here for scapegoat blaming.
@narfcake hmmm I am going to take one of your unblames from the blame thread and insert it HERE to neutralize @aetris’s blame in this thread.
All is now in balance in the world.
@RiotDemon
I knows you’re quite youngish compared to some of us.
Bit you could handle this my way.
Oops! Senility!
Or
Oops! Early onset senility!
People always seem to forgive whatever I just did that was so idiotic.
(Lots of personal data points here.)
/giphy idiotic
@f00l
If you don’t talk to people, then nothing you do would be idiotic.
Or, it would be, just there would be no witnesses.
@mflassy
Because many of the idiotic things I do are noticeable in the doing, or have consequences visible and obvious to others, it would take more than my personal silence to remove the impression of idiocy.
But thanks.
@f00l
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@mflassy
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@mflassy I understand why we can read that, it just amazes me. LOL
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@Kidsandliz Patterns. The same reason we can read Times Roman even though it’s a hideous typeface.
pimento-over-olive, footprint-on-cherries, M-in-strips:
Boring office party?
@mflassy If an idiot fucks up in the forest and there’s no one there to see it, is it really a fuckup?
@moondrake
IIf the person who fucked up is an idiot or a fool or a @f00l, then yes.
It is a genuine and verifiable fuck up.
(from personal experience, not specified)
/giphy "fuck up"
@f00l - hey, that’s my exercise routine!